Writing is rewarding, in the sense that I feel like I am doing something I am supposed to do… and doesn’t that feel good? However, it also causes me to experience some insecurity. I’m a little fish in a very big pond… ocean, really. I felt that way the other day when I was perusing a well-known writer’s blog. I felt so small. I started to wonder, what should I write about? What do I have to say and why does it matter? I felt intimidated.
Then, we went away for Christmas, and I began the process of going through my journal entries from 2014. I think it’s important to remember the last year before I move on to the next and to summarize the year’s lessons for myself. As I began the process however, I quickly realized that the Lord had given me a lot of meat to chew… too much to try to review and summarize in a day or two. And then, the Lord prompted me with this idea: Go back through your journal and share it on your blog.
So here I go. Still feeling intimidated and small, I’m taking you all through my last year. The highs, the lows, the dreams, and the disasters. It’s scary, because choosing to be barefaced makes me vulnerable… but I’m also excited because sharing my journal lines up exactly with why I believe God laid this whole project on my heart:
2 Corinthians 3:17-18, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
When we know Jesus, the veil covering our faces is removed, and we can see Him and know Him. When we know Him, we are made more like Him… we become barefaced beautiful.
Let’s do this. (gulp)
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